China is to block all websites related to cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs) – including foreign platforms – in a bid to finally quash the market completely.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
“To prevent financial risks, China will step up measures to remove any onshore or offshore platforms related to virtual currency trading or ICOs,” said an article published on Sunday night by Financial News, a publication affiliated to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
The article acknowl...

SHTFPLAN.COM
When the Chinese state-run media suggested that their country was two weeks away from possibly going to war with India earlier this month, they probably weren’t expecting a childish brawl between their armies, but that’s exactly what happened a few days ago. Footage of a scuffle between Chinese and Indian soldiers in the disputed Ladakh region of Northern India has surfaced, and spread far and wide on social media. It shows the soldiers beating and grappling with each other. Som...

The message is in the tagline of the movie: “Anyone who offends China will be killed no matter how far away they are.”
IRISH TIMES
Holding aloft the red flag of China, former special forces operative Leng Feng, played by martial arts hero Wu Jing, bellows to the warring African factions: “We are Chinese”, prompting both sides to lower their weapons and let the avenging heroes through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqGiPB2D8M
Spoiler alert for any fans of wildly violent, patriotic Chinese p...

There will be no war on the Korean peninsula, South Korean President Moon Jae-In stated Thursday, adding that Seoul effectively had a veto over US military action in response to the North's nuclear and missile programs.
Alahednews
Tensions have soared on the peninsula in recent months, with Pyongyang carrying out its first successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM], bringing much of the US within range.
Last week it threatened to send a salvo of rockets towards the U...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned this week that Tehran may abandon the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), within hours if the U.S. continues imposing new sanctions.
THE ANTI MEDIA
In a speech to parliament on Tuesday, Rouhani said Donald Trump was “not a good partner.”
“Those who try to return to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past delusions,” Rouhani also said in a televised address. “If they want to go ...

The "wrong" actions of the United States on Taiwan, its South China Sea patrols and deployment of an advanced anti-missile system in South Korea have had a large, negative influence on military trust, a senior Chinese officer said on Thursday.
YAHOO NEWS
Fan Changlong, a vice chairman of China's powerful Central Military Commission, told Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, that mutual trust mechanisms between the two militaries had continued to improve, China's defense ...

A flurry of reports claim that bomb shelter sales have skyrocketed recently.
GIZMODO
After North Korea threatened to launch an “enveloping strike” at Guam, the territory’s office of civil defense posted emergency guidelines on Friday, explaining what citizens should do in the event of a missile attack. (“Do not look at the flash or fireball—It can blind you. Take cover behind anything that might offer protection.”) The advisory followed a week of alarming statements by President Trump and No...

The foundation around which the U.S. economy runs, the power grid makes an intriguing target for hackers.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
After it came to light this summer that hackers had infiltrated the computer networks of two U.S. power companies - at a time the country was still reeling from Russian cyberattacks aimed at influencing the 2016 election - the possibility of hackers taking down the U.S. power grid and sending the nation into chaos suddenly seemed a very real possibility.
The compani...

ZERO HEDGE
Traders barely had time to enjoy the lull from the "Armageddon trade" - the rising possibility of a nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea, which peaked over the weekend when various US officials said a nuclear war is not imminent, echoed by a statement by N. Korea's state-run news agency KCNA, before a new set of worries promptly took over, chief among them the ongoing slow motion train wreck in Donald Trump's administration coupled with yesterday's double terrorist attac...

According to the most senior official in the U.S. armed forces, canceling the upcoming joint military drills between the United States and South Korea — drills both China and North Korea have said will only ratchet up regional tension — is simply not an option.
THE ANTI MEDIA
Stating that a cancellation is “not currently on the table as part of the negotiation at any level,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said Thursday the U.S. military must stay sharp and alert:
As ...

There are some major us cities that you don't want to be in if there is a world war 3, civil unrest, food riots, power outages or other natural disasters.
This article was originally published by Stefan Stanford at AllNewsPipeline.com
In the new story over at Survival Dan called “During The Collapse: Where To Go And What Places To Avoid”, he reports that when IT hits the fan, America’s ‘population hubs’ will likely explode with violence, looting and the total breakdown of law and order as ...

Will Trump's geopolitical world war 3 moves lead America into a new world order lead by China and Russia?
Eric Zuesse - RINF.COM
The disenchanted Reagan Administration official and much-honored economist and political scientist, Paul Craig Roberts, headlined on April 27th, “Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China” and stated an impressive case that this radical conclusion is realistic, no mere alarmism.
Roberts even said in it that “Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await Amer...

MINT PRESS NEWS
In the Iraqi city of Mosul, local residents have retrieved almost 300 bodies from underneath buildings that were leveled by a U.S. airstrike that took place on March 17.
The strike killed hundreds as part of an attempt by a U.S.-led coalition to combat Daesh (ISIS) forces by bombing their network of tunnels.
Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq, admitted to The New York Times that, as of now, ”the initial assessment is that we probably had a role in ...

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
“The problem is that the world has listened to Americans for far too bloody long.” — Dr. Julian Osborne, from the 2000 film version of Nevil Shute’s 1957 book, On the Beach
A reader asked why neoconservatives push toward nuclear war when there can be no winners. If all die, what is the point?
The answer is that the neoconservatives believe that the US can win at minimum and perhaps zero damage.
Their insane plan is as follows: Washington will ring Russia and China with ...

RUSSIA TODAY
A US citizen is reportedly being held by authorities in North Korea on suspicion of carrying out hostile acts against the state.
Citing the nation’s KCNA news agency, Reuters reports that Kim Hak Song was arrested Saturday for reasons not yet fully disclosed.
READ MORE: ‘Declaration of war’: Russian MPs blast US plans to enforce N. Korea sanctions on foreign territory
Song is reportedly an employee at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
RT.com has cont...